Monument record MNL 296 - Owers Farm; Hurdle Drove, West Row; H5,H6,H7; OS Field 7061 (BA)

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Summary

Circa 1960s: Stone axe-hammer, Group XVIII (S137).

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 6684 7755 (304m by 280m) Centred on
Map sheet	TL67NE
Civil Parish	MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

ARTEFACT SCATTER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Full Description

Circa 1960s: Stone axe-hammer, 16.2cm x 7.5cm, Group XVIII (S137), found at (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s)(S1)(S2).
Circa 1967-1987: Scatter of mainly Neo/EBA pottery, burnt and worked flint, animal bone etc, found by C Pendleton from circa 1967 and by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) from circa 1975. Scatter spread over three fields (numbers H5, H6 & H7; OS Fields 7061, 8451 & 9139), relatively dispersed over two to N. Finds include two barbed and tanged arrowheads (RF8 & BB2); a triangular arrowhead (RF5); two tranchet derivative arrowheads? (RF2, RF7); a tanged arrowhead (BB3); a bifacially reworked (with earlier patinated working) bifacial knife (RF6), a plano-convex knife (RF1), pottery including much beaker, at least 25 round scrapers (BB7) and other miscellaneous flintwork etc (S1).
Also Mes, Neo & Rom.

Sources/Archives (2)

<S1> SSF15678 Unpublished document: Pendleton C F. 1987. Catalogue of finds and findspots,1965-1987, unpublished. Pendleton C, finds records, ms, unpublished, circa 1965-1987.
<S2> SSF3434 (No record type): CBA, RR, 67, Stone Axe Studies, 2, 1988, 181.

Finds (8)

FSF10017: PERFORATED OBJECT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10018: POTTERY BEAKER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10019: POTTERY (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10020: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10021: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10022: TRIANGULAR ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10023: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF10024: WORKED OBJECT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

May 14 2020 11:25AM